Note: This is just one of1,325 family groupings listed onThe Political Graveyard web site.These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption. This specific family group is a subset of themuch largerFour ThousandRelated Politicians group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset. These groupings — even thenames of the groupings,and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,not the choices of any historian or genealogist. | | Nicholas Gilman (1731-1783) — of Exeter,RockinghamCounty, N.H.Born in New Hampshire,October21, 1731.Member ofNewHampshire Governor's Council, 1777-83; died in office 1783.Died in New Hampshire,April 7,1783 (age51 years, 168days).Interment atWinterStreet Cemetery, Exeter, N.H. | | John Wentworth Jr. (1745-1787) — of Dover,StraffordCounty, N.H.Born in Salmon Falls, Rollinsford,StraffordCounty, N.H.,July 17,1745.Lawyer;StraffordCounty Register of Probate, 1773-87; member ofNewHampshire state house of representatives, 1776; member ofNewHampshire Governor's Council, 1776-84;Delegateto Continental Congress from New Hampshire, 1778;signer,Articles of Confederation, 1778; member ofNewHampshire state senate from Strafford County, 1784-86.Died in Dover,StraffordCounty, N.H.,January10, 1787 (age41 years, 177days).Interment atPineHill Cemetery, Dover, N.H. | | John Taylor Gilman (1753-1828) — of Exeter,RockinghamCounty, N.H.Born in Exeter,RockinghamCounty, N.H.,December19, 1753.Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; memberofNewHampshire state house of representatives, 1779-81, 1810-11;Delegateto Continental Congress from New Hampshire, 1782-83;NewHampshire state treasurer, 1783-89, 1791-94;Governor ofNew Hampshire, 1794-1805, 1813-16.Died in Exeter,RockinghamCounty, N.H.,September1, 1828 (age74 years, 257days).Interment atWinterStreet Cemetery, Exeter, N.H. | | Nicholas Gilman (1755-1814) — of Exeter,RockinghamCounty, N.H.Born in Exeter,RockinghamCounty, N.H.,August3, 1755.Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War;Delegateto Continental Congress from New Hampshire, 1787-89;member,U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787;U.S.Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1789-97; member ofNewHampshire state senate 2nd District, 1804-05;U.S.Senator from New Hampshire, 1805-14; died in office 1814.Congregationalist.Member,Societyof the Cincinnati.Died in Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.,May 2,1814 (age58 years, 272days).Interment atExeterCemetery, Exeter, N.H. | | Nathaniel Gilman (1759-1847) — of Exeter,RockinghamCounty, N.H.Born in Exeter,RockinghamCounty, N.H.,November10, 1759.Member ofNewHampshire state senate, 1792-93, 1795-96, 1802-03 (RockinghamCounty 1792-93, 2nd District 1795-96, 1802-03).Died in Exeter,RockinghamCounty, N.H.,January26, 1847 (age87 years, 77days).Interment atExeterCemetery, Exeter, N.H. | | Nicholas Emery (1776-1861) — of Parsonfield,YorkCounty, Maine; Portland,CumberlandCounty, Maine.Born in Exeter,RockinghamCounty, N.H.,September4, 1776.Lawyer;justiceof Maine state supreme court, 1834-41.Died in Portland,CumberlandCounty, Maine,August24, 1861 (age84 years, 354days).Interment atWesternCemetery, Portland, Maine. | | Charles Henry Bell (1823-1893) — also known asCharles H. Bell — of Exeter,RockinghamCounty, N.H.Born in Chester,RockinghamCounty, N.H.,November18, 1823.Republican. Member ofNewHampshire state house of representatives, 1858-60;Speaker ofthe New Hampshire State House of Representatives, 1860; member ofNewHampshire state senate 2nd District, 1863-65;U.S.Senator from New Hampshire, 1879;Governor ofNew Hampshire, 1881-83;delegateto New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1889.Died in Exeter,RockinghamCounty, N.H.,November11, 1893 (age69 years, 358days).Interment atExeterCemetery, Exeter, N.H. | | Charles Jervis Gilman (1824-1901) — also known asCharles J. Gilman — of Brunswick,CumberlandCounty, Maine.Born in Exeter,RockinghamCounty, N.H.,February26, 1824.Republican. Member ofNewHampshire state house of representatives, 1851; member ofMainestate house of representatives, 1854;U.S.Representative from Maine 2nd District, 1857-59; delegate toRepublican National Convention from Maine,1860.DiedFebruary5, 1901 (age76 years, 344days).Interment atPineGrove Cemetery, Brunswick, Maine.
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